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ED visits Bengaluru man who claimed to have imported Rs 50-crore dog

Sources said that the officials of the federal probe agency found that the man 'had no means' to purchase such a costly canine, and such reports were 'just created' for possible social media engagement
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday visited the house of a man here to conduct a potential search for the violation of foreign exchange rules after he claimed to have imported a Rs 50-crore dog.

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The assertion, however, was found to be fake.

Sources said that the officials of the federal probe agency found that the man “had no means” to purchase such a costly canine, and such reports were “just created” for possible social media engagement.

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The man, according to reports, had claimed that he had imported the “world’s most expensive” dog — a cross-breed of a Caucasian Shepherd and Wolf. The claim gained prominence on social media, inviting the ED’s glare.

Officials of the federal probe agency, acting on this open-source information, reached his home to verify the claims, only to find that they were fake.

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The dog, whose pictures were also circulated widely on social media, was owned by his neighbour and was not worth “even a lakh (of rupees)”, they said.

The agency has not initiated any probe under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the sources said.

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